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From: "SPECTRA r" <>
Subject: Re: [RIVERINA] Look ups offer
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:29:09 +1000
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>From the Griffith and District Pioneers book. By courtesy of Mrs Ethel
Goodfellow and Joan Dicker (nee Goodfellow). Published 1992:

Cecil Goodfellow, one of the original soldier settlers and known to his
friends as "Goodie", was a little man with a big heart and an unwavering
sense of humour which carried him through any disaster. Anyone who knows
the history of early settlement in the Griffith area knows that, for soldier
settlers, disasters were many and varied.

Born in Plymouth, England, in 1896, he came to Australia in 1913 with the
intention of learning large area farming. He travelled from Sydney to "Isis
Downs": in Qld where he was given employment and , as a "new chum", had his
share of unexpected adventure.

However, WW1 soon intervened and he returned to Sydney where he enlisted in
teh 2nd Battalion, 1st AIF. His comrades in arms were to include a number
who were later amoung the early soldier settlers.

After serving in France he was invalided to England, along with his brother,
Howard, who later rose to the rank of Major General in the British Army.
Upon his return to Australia in 1919 he was discharged as medically unfit
and came to Griffith where he met his future wife, Ethel Charlotte Berthon.

He took up Farm 285 and in 1920, at Narrandera, married Ethel who had come
to Griffith in 1915, when Griffith was still a "bag town". In 1927 he moved
to Farm 543 and, in 1937, to a dry area block at the back of the present
aerodrome.

1939 saw him moving to Farm 1654 Beelbangera, a horticulture farm where he
remained until 1956. After selling the farm he took over the Tharbogang
Post Office and Store; finally his war service caught up with him and he
passed away in 1963. He was a member of the RSL, almost from it's
inception, and was a Civil Defence Controller at the time of hi death.
Goodfellow Place in Tharbogang bears his name.

Unfortunately, although his tales of early Irrigation Area experiences were
many, and often humorous, they were never recorded for posterity.

He lived to see his grandchildren - Stephen who now lives in Tasmania and
Suzanne who lives in Sydney. He is survived by his wife, Ethel, who at the
age of ninety lives in the Elizabeth Lodge Nursing Home at Willoughby in
Sydney and his daughter, Joan, who lives at Forestville.

Cheers,
Di

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